The arrogance of our political elites never ceases to amaze. Amid the revolt against Sydney’s break-neck population growth and declining liveability, NSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts has arrogantly claimed “overdevelopment does not exist”:
At a panel discussion on the city’s future on Friday, Anthony Roberts said he was “done with the term overdevelopment” and annoyed at “councils whingeing along the way” as Sydney undergoes a much-needed renovation.
“We needed to move the dial dramatically and we did”…
“Overdevelopment does not exist, infrastructure failure exists,” he told those gathered for the event hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
“Admittedly previous governments allowed poor development but I’m confident we’re rectifying that with the world’s best design and planning principles” he said, adding the missing middle — backed by supporting infrastructure — was key to supporting a growing city…
In her keynote address, City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said population pressures were challenging infrastructure.
She later told Domain fears of overdevelopment among communities across Sydney were justified, because people were used to seeing development put in place without the supporting amenity and open space.
“Take Mascot for example, people see rows and rows of dense development that have gone up with no open space or facilities… and that’s what worries people,” she said.
Anthony Roberts clearly doesn’t care about Sydney residents’ amenity and living standards. He only cares about feeding the property/development lobby through never ending immigration-fuelled development.
The empirical evidence is clear: Sydney has already experienced 15 years of hyper population growth and the result is that Sydney housing has become hideously expensive and infrastructure has unambiguously been degraded and crush-loaded. Nobody can dispute this.
Moreover, Infrastructure Australia’s recent report clearly showed that liveability in Sydney will decline further as the city’s population grows to 7.4 million people by 2046, irrespective of whether the city builds up like New York, sprawls-out like Los Angeles, or does a London-style combination. That is, traffic congestion will unambiguously worsen and access to jobs, schools, hospitals and green space will all decline:
The Urban Taskforce’s projections also show that Sydney will transform into a high-rise ‘battery chook’ city mid-century, whereby only one quarter of all homes will be detached houses:
So Sydney is facing a future whereby only elites like Anthony Roberts will be able to afford to live in a detached house with a backyard, while the ordinary folk are crammed into apartments, displaced by the never-ending flood of migrants:
Why should existing residents be displaced and/or have their living standards crushed because people like Anthony Roberts endorse the group think of open borders?
It’s high time our politicians represented the interests of the ordinary residents, who are being kicked to the curb by the ‘Big Australia’ mass immigration policy.
